mandatory insurance

rappers

Should I pay for you or should you pay for you?

rappers answered my question this week about whether they support mandatory health insurance for everyone.  A large response in oiur survey, had 59% saying it’s a bad idea…the e-mails that follow are those who chose to explaintheir position.

IF EVERYONE GOT INSURENCE THEN THE DOCTORS WOULD HAVE TO MAKE IT WHERE EVERYONE PAYS THE SAME FOR THE SAME THING. NOT ONE PERSON PAYING $3.00   AND THE OTHER PAYING $600.  WE NEED TO HAVE A REGULAR PRICE FOR EVERYONE AND SO IT DOESN"T COST AN ARM AND A LEG FOR THE SAME THINGS   WE, AS THE PEOPLE OF THE US, NEED TO GET SMARTER AND TELL OUR HIGHER UPS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND MAKE THEM HELP THE LITTLE GUY OUT INSTEAD OF THE ONES WHO ALREADY HAVE EVERTHING  
NANCY,  HOPE VALLEY

If every U.S. Citizen had insurance:
It would keep insurances costs lower. (Co-pays, etc)
The hospitals would get their earned reimbursement from insurance payers and other federal programs.
But instead:
The free care (non-insured citizen) that enters each hospital is forced to take a loss and absorb within its financial structure.
This currently is bringing down many facilities in the country…
Bad economy? This is a large part of it…….
Justine M

we are privileged living in America. We have many freedoms other countries don’t have. It isn’t good to let the state or federal government dictate to its citizens what they have to do or not do. I served honorably in the military so as to protect and preserve our freedoms not to relinquish them.
Charlie, West Warwick

be forced to buy health insurance?  we shouldn’t be forced to buy anything.  i thought this was a free country.
rae ann

If I don’t have health coverage and I go to the hospital who pays the bill if i cant afford it?  Not me.  You shouldn’t have to force people to buy coverage but it may be the only way to solve this problem.
Danny,  Warwick Neck

Everybody must buy heath insurance or pay a fine. Brilliant.
Is that like everybody driving in RI has insurance? Ha!
Just make it a standard deduction from a paycheck, like social security,
and get over it.
Companies don’t want to pay to insure workers anyway.
And insurance companies run this country.
stuckinri